Thanks to yesterday's livestream, we learned quite a lot about what Bungie's bringing to the table in terms of rewards and progression with Destiny's April update. As you'd imagine, new weapons and armour will be up for grabs, including gear sets that can be altered using Chroma - a new resource that to adds neon tints to your items. You can use Chroma in tandem with regular shaders, too, so there's going to be more room for character customisation than ever before.
But fresh loot isn't the only bullet point here. In a couple of rather clever moves, the developer's tweaking the way that you'll power up your Guardian - and these changes seem very welcome indeed. First off, infusing equipment with more powerful gear in order to boost its light level will be much more effective. When you infuse an item, that item will now rise to the level of the consumed equipment - there's no middle ground. In other words, if you snag a 330 light shotgun that you're never going to use, and want to upgrade a 290 exotic weapon, you can consume said shotgun and watch your exotic rocket straight to 330, which should make progression feel much less gradual when it comes to powerful gear.
On top of the reworked infusion system, reputation gains across all factions will be increased "dramatically", allowing you to rank up and collect reward packages more often, and the equipment found in these packages can scale all the way up to 330 light. Better get grinding, we suppose.
So, are these subtle but important tweaks going to be enough to tempt you back to Destiny? Choose a faction in the comments section below.
[source bungie.net]
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For anyone even thinking of complaining, consider the following:
This update is made by the Live Team, aka the people who previously made SRL, The Halloween event, Crimson Doubles for Valentine's Day. It's not like all of Bungie is working on this update, It's a really, really small team and this is their biggest project yet. I say they have done a remarkable job of revitalizing the game.
I do think the new update addresses a lot of the issues I had with yr2. I am disappointed that a lot of yr1 is obsolete still - the 2 raids, Vex, Necrochasm, Icebreaker, Gjallahorn etc but still not sure if he 'overall' content will be enough to keep me playing more than a few weeks or so.
The cosmetics look good and it will be nice to acquire some favourites from yr1. Infusing won't feel so disappointing and costly - particularly the exotics which require 'shards'.
Crucible has no appeal to me so I am looking at the PvE content only to get my Destiny fix.
Less grinding = more fun for me
You know that Marlon Brando film where he says "I could have been a contender". That's Destiny.
Sounds like some good improvements, the problem is I have long since completed every mission/strike or whatever many times over so there is still no point in coming back. I will however be interested in any sequel
We need Destiny 2. Put D1 to bed and make a beast with all the experience garnered from the last couple of years.
@BAMozzy that's pretty much what made me put the game down. I can only game for 15 or so hours a week, and when my hard earned weapons (as crap as they were) became obsolete I was extremely disappointed.
Good improvements overall but not enough for me to jump back in the game.
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